The game surpassed the longstanding household ratings record held by “M*A*S*H” finale.

Some highlights of the chat, supplied via transcript by FBN:

On the difference between “M*A*S*H” and the Super Bowl with respect to money made:

"That Super Bowl is never going to earn what ‘M*A*S*H’ earned, that's for sure, because there's no reruns for that Super Bowl -- nobody's going to be interested in that, and ‘M*A*S*H’ reruns have been on for 30 years."

(The Super Bowl is rerunning this week on the NFL Network.)

On whether he feels melancholy that “M*A*S*H” is no longer the most-watched show of all time:

"No, not really. I'll tell you why. There is so much advertising leading up to the Super Bowl -- if we had had that, by the way if anybody had that kind of advertising leading up to it and all of the hoopla that goes on before it...

"Records are meant to be broken and we were lucky and at the time that we did ‘M*A*S*H’ there weren't all of these competing networks. The fact that the show did as well as it did -- I was very excited about it and I think it's terrific that it did. I'm excited for those guys at the Super Bowl."